Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the biggest mobile gaming releases with reviews and trailers. This week's games include a tribute to Final Fantasy music, a double dose of virtual trivia gameshows and Double Fine's superhero management sim.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

Platforms: iPhone, iPadPrice: Free

Square Enix brings the 3DS Final Fantasy rhythm game to iOS devices. The soundtrack is comprised of field and battle stages, both of which play slightly differently. Field stages have players tapping, flicking and sliding their finger in time with a single stream of notes while battle stages are more frantic by offering four streams of notes to keep track of.

The iOS game is much abridged compared to the iOS original. The game starts as a free download with two songs, Final Fantasy VII's One Winged Angel and Final Fantasy X's Zanarkand, with the rest of the 59-song soundtrack available as in-app purchases for $0.99 / 69p each.

Even for those who purchase all of the songs, the entire story and dark note modes from the original are absent, along with most of the character levelling system, with the iOS game replacing those features with a Quest mode that randomly selects songs from your in-game library.

The one advantage of the iOS game is the song edit mode, which lets users create and share their own note layouts for any song they have purchased. For those who have the option, the 3DS version is a far more complete tribute to the series' music. However, the iOS game still retains the excellent core rhythm-based gameplay, making it a decent alternative for those willing to invest in the soundtrack.

The Chase brings the popular UK gameshow to iOS devices for a round of trivia at home. It is faithful to the show, letting players pass around a single device to participate in the cash builder, chase and final chase rounds. Final chase works best with an iPad laying on a table since an iPhone is too small to share at once, but the smaller screen can still work well for solo players.

While the iOS game features all four of the show's brilliant chasers to challenge players, there is something missing. The game includes the chasers as static images only, without spoken lines to capture their personality through banter and taunts.

This reviewer, being an American, also struggled with the clearly UK-centric trivia being offered, but that is to be expected considering that The Chase is only available in the UK app store. Nevertheless, I found myself oddly hooked on The Chase, which speaks to the game's strength in appealing even to those who aren't fans of the show.

Middle Manager of Justice is Double Fine's attempt at putting a new spin on the free-to-play genre. Players take on the role of a middle manager for a superhero dispatch company, hiring and training heroes to send them into the city and fight crime. As is typical of the genre, a lot of waiting is involved as training, recovering health, restoring hero morale and learning new skills all take anywhere from 1-15 minutes to complete.

Heroes can be trained to improve their attack power, health and intelligence, with three training points earned at each level. To gain levels you'll have to send heroes out on missions to fight crime. These missions play out as little skits, with a few witty lines of dialogue exchanged before entering a mostly automated battle sequence. Players will have some input on battles though, timing the activation of each hero's unique power along with middle manager powers like crunch time and deadlines.

The art style and humour are top notch for Middle Manager of Justice, giving the cast of heroes and villains a lot of charm. However the free-to-play elements drag it down. The amount of time you wait is short enough that there's no need to quit and do some other activity for a while, but also long enough that there is a lot of downtime while playing. As you gain levels the pace for advancement gets slower, and so does interest in continuing to play. Middle Manager of Justice is worth a try for the creative presentation, but it isn't a game most will likely stick with for very long.

The offbeat trivia game You Don't Know Jack arrives on iOS. The long-absent series has seen a resurgence in the last year, first on Facebook and now with an iOS game that integrates directly with the Facebook version.

Each round players challenge Facebook friends and strangers alike through five oddball questions that can include distinguishing between Knights of the Round Table and Top Model contestants or matching famous cartoon bears to the outfits they wear. Each question is complete with comedic commentary from the colorful host. The humour can be pretty hit or miss at times, but undoubtedly adds personality to the trivia questions.

As a free-to-play game, players get one free round each day, with the ability to play more by spending coins. Coins can be earned slowly by playing, but those looking to get serious about You Don't Know Jack will have to pay up in real money before too long.

What makes You Don't Know Jack really worthwhile though is how the game is constantly updated. Each week brings a new set of questions, meaning you'll never run into repeat quizzes and the pop culture questions are always up to date. As a complete opposite to The Chase above, the questions can be fairly US-centric, but there is nothing else quite like it for trivia buffs.